On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:50 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > > Your entire rest of statement was valid, but why on earth did you make > a claim like this? I have to speak up and say something here. ext2 is > nowhere near dead. I use it on my /boot partition on every Linux > install, and every filesystem on my Eee is currently ext2. Hardly > dead- unless "stable as hell" = dead. Ext2 is stable as hell, so is ext3. The point is that nowadays almost nobody wants to use a filesystem without journal, that's why I consider it dead. If journalling wasn't important (and if I didn't need filesizes bigger than 2 or 4GB), then FAT32 wouldn't be a dead filesystem either. Ext3 is basically just Ext2 with an added journal, so that's why Ext2 is still developed and supported.
